I am really excited about my new site.
So am I. Miss Delores is Donald's mom. Say hi...now.
Rachel has a new issue of 28MM up. I like Caught, by Aaron Wolfe
Wolfe's details:
These come from my current favorite subject, people on the streets of Brooklyn. (One here is from Manhattan.) I work candidly, shooting from the hip, sometimes hiding the camera in an over-mitten with a hole cut for the lens.
There's mention of —
A Day in the Life teams up with Positive Focus to host A Day in the Life: Brooklyn. Approximately 100 photographers will be selected and assigned to locations throughout Brooklyn's diverse communities, all to take photos on a single day, April 26, 2003.
Some time ago after Donald redesigned my site, I planned to introduce a photo subsection. Planet Brooklyn never got off the ground. Trying to decide whether or not I'll participate, esp. with the deadline right around the corner. There's no mention of skill levels accepted though. I take photographs as a hobby (and it doesn't help that my digicam is on the fritz).
Still debating tonight's scheduled event:
The Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program & Institute of NYU presents:
Corky Lee, the pre-eminent photographer and documentarian of the Asian/Pacific American community in New York extends his residency at A/P/A Studies. As a complement to his Fall exhibition: "A Photographic Journey with Corky Lee: An 'ABC' Views Chinatown, NYC in the 1970s," Lee presents a slide show with rarely seen images of Asian Americans protesting the Vietnam War. Join us as Lee recounts the stories behind the photos.
Tuesday, March 4th
6pm to 8pm
A/P/A Studies, NYU
269 Mercer Street, Suite 609
I didn't want to read the latest goings on in the literary scene at Mosaic Books; I don't feel like buying a tee from Impact Press; and I didn't feel like reading about a sexual scam artist down in the Atlanta area (OK, I lied I did read about it; my two youngest brothers live in the area and...er, it was kinda funny to think about).
I'm dead tired. I was planning to start a series of articles/commentary on the Central Park 5. After helping my ex move yesterday and hanging with Lee afterwards, I finalized some immediate plans: this is a ME ME ME weekend! I am deleting old ass email, discarding URLs to interesting stories, articles and personal sites, and not answering any new email for now. If you catch me online, say hi, but don't hate me for conversational brevity.
I'll be back to regular blogging early next week. And the series will begin on Wednesday, March 12th.
Check out these bloggers (don't give me no grief if you're not listed, it was off the top of my head)?
list of bloggers off the top of my head
I came to my senses; just check out the links on this page and follow the links at those planets.
Peace, Love & Blessings
He's with the Drum Major Institute. Forgot to mention that they have a blog. Funny name too: ProgBlog.
I don't have time to check it out or discuss it. See ya'll tomorrow.
The five men whose convictions in the 1989 Central Park jogger case were overturned late last year will take their first steps to bringing civil suits against the city this week, their attorneys said yesterday.
[Does this count as a Central Park 5 update?]
Guy the New Person at One World
Melody Guy, who directs Villard's Strivers Row imprint, has been named a senior editor at Ballantine Books and will take over the direction of One World, an imprint specializing in multicultural titles. One World has been without editorial leadership since Anita Diggs, its former director, left Ballantine in April 2002. Guy will continue to direct Strivers Row.
Guy, who worked at S&S before joining Villard in 1997, was the first editor of Striver?s Row, an imprint specializing in African American titles that was launched in 2000. One World was founded in the early 1990s and was one of the first imprints to focus on a multicultural market, specializing in titles for African American, Asian, Latin and other minority readers. -- Calvin Reid, PW Newsline
Blithe House Quarterly: a site for gay short fiction invites you to browse its Spring 2003 edition featuring Stephen Beachy, Mary Beth Caschetta, C. Bard Cole, Martin J. Goodman, Amy Hassinger, Stuart Henderson, Mary Sharratt & E.B. Vandiver.
Edited by Amy King, Jarrett Walker and Aldo Alvarez
Designed by Aldo Alvarez and Steve MacIsaac
Heads Up from Lynne:
Arrested Development: Fourteen years after the trial that demonized men of color in America, the defendants' convictions were vacated. Now, they tell their story.
Well, not really. Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana, Jr. speak with Ann-Marie Nicholson (who happens to get some of the details wrong, but it's a breath of fresh air after reading the biased stories from the dailies) for this brief article.
[ Article not available online: Page 106 in the April 2003 issue of The Source on stands now ]
Can't write now. It's not a lack of motivation, just a case of a broken heart considering local and world events.
Back soon. (A few days or a week, who knows)
Update: I'll post interesting links, but won't be posting my series on teh Central Park 5 till some time this week. Promise. Tons of work to do, including some writing (fingers crossed).
Keith Boykin gives us a list of his Oscar picks:
Best Animation: Michael Moore animated the crowd last night with his acceptance speech at the Academy Awards for his film Bowling for Columbine. Moore said, "We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fiction of duct tape or fiction of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much."
[ From George, because he's cool like that (and I'm still lazy, and having phone trouble and miss DSL and...) ]
Central Park Jogger Reveals ID in Book
The woman at the center of the Central Park jogger case is breaking her 14-year silence and revealing her identity, and she says the reopening of the case in the past year made her live the horror as never before.
Trisha Meili, 42, is coming out of anonymity at the same time her book, entitled I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility is being released, the New York Daily News reported Friday.
The book, being published next month by Simon and Schuster, is a memoir of her ordeal and her recovery. In it, she recounts the trial of the five teenagers who were originally convicted in the case, and her reaction when another man said last year he was the culprit."
I was living the horror as I had not lived it before, since I had been beaten into a coma the first time around," she wrote.Meili, an investment banker with dual master's degrees from Yale, was attacked and raped on April 19, 1989, while jogging in Central Park. Then 28, she suffered brain damage, lost at least three-fourths of her blood and spent two weeks in a coma, doctors said. She has no memory of the attack.
Five teenagers, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Antron McCray, Kharey Wise, and Kevin Richardson, were arraigned after four of them made incriminating videotaped statements to police about the attack. Genetic evidence found on Meili later failed to connect the attack with the youths, but they were eventually convicted and served up to 11 1/2 years in prison.
Last year, however, Matias Reyes, a man serving time for murder and serial rape, claimed that he was the attacker, and DNA evidence linked him to the crime. The five men's convictions were thrown out at the district attorney's request.
(more at the above link)